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My favorite indoor venue for Dead shows, bar none. Super-rockin' show, killer "Big Railroad Blues."

Even though many feel that 1986 was not a very good year for the GD, this is one of my all time favorite shows. The first set was incredible, and to this day LLR still sends shivers up & down my spine, and puts goose-bumps on my arms. The second set was extra special too. I was in the first few rows for this show, and the boys seemed to be having a great time, and were as musically tight as ever. Just wonderful memories of this show in particular. For me this was the epitome of the perfect show, and if I could only keep one memory of a show, this would be the one.

not sure if it was this show, or one of the previous nights in PCC, but remember a wedding taking place in the (carpeted) hallway behind the stage. Big circle of friends around the bride and groom. Does anyone else remember?

My first Dead show. I was 16. Awesome. Loved loved loved it. And yes, I think there WAS a wedding going on on the carpet behind the stage! I seem to remember that too. :)

My first Dead show...Me and my friend Joe stole my dad's car to go. He still doesn't know til this day!:) "just get on the bus Gus"

...and, I'm pretty sure, the only "Stagger Lee" I ever heard.

Cub: On June 29.2011 GD Radio streamed this show. It was a soundboard. But not a crispy clear recording that GD Radio usually shares. I did not attend this one but I remember a Hell In The Bucket from Providence a few years earlier. Except for theaters, was the only arena venue that I can recall having "carpeted halls".

Are you sure it wasn't later at the Nick in Albany? My friend and fellow taper Mike Lieman Married his wife Laurie there complete with a Justice of the Peace. Fun beautiful night.